
By John Townsend
ISBN-10: 1848851340
ISBN-13: 9781848851344
Britain's second within the center East: used to be it an imperial triumph or a decisive staging put up within the end-of-empire story? Sir Percy Cox (1864-1937) used to be a necessary determine within the heritage of the British Empire within the heart East, a part of the pantheon with such legends as T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell. As excessive Commissioner in Iraq from 1920 to 1923 he presided over the beginning of recent Iraq - the climax of his profession -- yet left an little one nation fraught with political, ethnic and spiritual difficulties that have bedevilled Iraq and the center East to the current day. John Townsend paints a resounding photo of Britain's international empire and brings Cox to existence as an archetypal patrician proconsul. this can be the 1st significant biography of Cox, in keeping with vast examine in unique assets and lengthy adventure within the zone. It strikingly illustrates the modern background of Iraq and the fashionable heart East and may turn into the normal paintings on Cox.